Containerization has become increasingly popular of late. It could be said that the concept came as a reaction to the it-works-on-my-machine issue, which is prevalent in every organization and deals with software development. Containerization aims at a few goals, such as the abstraction of libraries and the elimination of the hypervisor in order to improve application performance, scalability (scaling out), application portability, and so on. Docker popularized the concept of containerization.
Docker containers pack everything that is needed to run a project: services, libraries, networking, storage, and code… it even packs protocols that the system needs to run the application. In other words, all of the dependencies that are required for an application to run are bundled into a single container so that there is no external dependency. Docker uses...
